Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 42, Number 227, 4 August 1917 — Page 6

''AGE TWO

THE JUNIOR

Th Junior Palladium la the children's section of the Richmond aUtdium, founded May C, 1916, and Issued each Saturday afternoon. U boys and girls are invited to be reporters nd contributors. News emB, social events, "want" advertisements, stories, local Jokes and rlglnal poems are acceptable and will be published. Articles should ' e written plainly and on one 6ide of the paper, with the author's name ad age signed. Aunt Molly la always glad to meet the children peronally as they bring their articles to the Palladium office, or to receive otters addresseu t the Junior Editor. This is your little newspaper nd we hope each boy and girl will use it thoroughly.

JO YOU KNOW HOW TO OR HAVEN'T If you have a pet frog or a rained salamander, it would be ood to get the opinion of Miss la M. Mellen, Secretary of the Aquarium in New York. She has lade a study of these amphibians, nd has qualified as an expert on 'le subject. The officers at the .quarium say that there are a surrising and unsuspected number of ersons interested in salamanders nd frogs. . "Please, can you tell me how to ed a frog?" is the often repeated iquiry from small boys and others no wish to keep their pets alive, .'here are scientists, too, who want ) know all about them. Many of he inquiries from the latter are as 0 how to treat the various ills to rhich the frog is heir. Hundreds of persons have their gardens now, and they are all firm iielievers in the idea that frogs and oads are good pest exterminators. 1 some district there has grown p a rivalry to see who can have he most toads in their garden atches. Hence there bad come an acreased thirst for knowledge rearding them. . Lately an elderly .entleman in Flatbush interested is neighbors by his , strange beavior. In the early, mornings he' ould be seen jumping and running bout in the strangest way. The heory that. he had been drinking w&a discounted by his reputation t a church member. It was disvered by one inquisitive woman J

Taking a "Cool-Off"

These are hard days for babies to live through and not every Chi- ' cago baby has its bottle cooled and its playroom ventilated with rei frigerated air. The great, sweltering West Side is this youngster's , nursery, but his mama evidently has found a place where he can I kick around in the water and be happy for awhile. See his little pink j toes splashing. Photograph by International Film Service.

This Is Bringing the Lake to Chicago all rightThat is the water was pumped from , the lake, and it takes much of the sting off the hot breezes of summer. .

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PALLADIUM FEED A FROG ? YOU A PET OF THIS KIND ? that he was out capturing frogs for his corn and tomato patches. The best way to bring up your salamander or frog is to follow Miss Meien's advice. She eaid that they should bo provided with aquaria so arranged that they may take their choice whether they will re main in the water or in the air. If you would keep your mud puppy or hellbender quite comfortable and happy they should be kept in run ning water. . It might be emphasized that no attempt should be made to influence them in the selection of air or water as a place of dwelling. Put a frog in the air and he instantly decides that he wants the water. Put him in the water and he pines for the air. To deprive him of his free will makes him peevish. "Most salamanaders and all frogs are cannibals, at least in cap tivity," said Miss Mellen. ITo pre vent loss of stock care should be taken to place together only those of approximately the same size Frogs in the talpole stage cat wa ter weeds and grasses, and may also be fed on minced meat, liver, and fish. Adult frogs devour al most any moving object which it is possible for them to swallow grasshoppers, snails, spiders, crickets, beetles and worms." .Various species of the frog have been kept at the Aquarium, including the bull frog, salt marsh frog, pickerel frog, green frog, and leop

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ard frog. They have lived from six months to two years on a diet of earthworms, meal worms, spiders, grasshoppers, crickets, "thousand legs," and beef liver cut in small strips. lltKIHIIlim ECHOES By HENRY McFARLONE NEWSY NEWS and FICTION Hibbard that summer school that tried to pull off a 1,000 percent stuff in baseball lost their first game Monday to Baxter in a double-header. Hibbard won the first and lost the second. Mr. Hybarger's Baxters is not at the bottom yet they claim Whitewater has the honor of stepping below. The Playground's team, featuring Dick Thornburg's playing as a star act pulls off some mighty nice plays such as beating Baxter 16 to 0 or something just as good. Mr. May's Whitewater team is trying to kid themselves into believing there's no place Like a place you don't have to fight over hence the .333. , Frank Crowe has arrived in Rich mond and will pull off his first piano act at the Y tonight at 7 p. m. The Y pool seems the most popular spot in Richmond. Mr. Williams claims there is near to 300 fellows in every day. Clem Myers who has lately com pleted that trip to Detroit' via bycicles seems to be above his Richmond friends now. Those many boys who had up their wireless sets before the war find that waiting until they can put 'em up again is like waiting for storms that doesn't break. Well, I've had a lot of experience with goats and cats but I nev er before had an experience with a real mad bull. Bulls are funny things. I have often looked them j over from horn to hoof but I never was much impressed by them before. Well the way it all happened was too quick to think of but it went something like this. Last week I went out to Cousit Susie's for a week-end visit on the farm oh boy! even the chickens celebrated they all went to roost ten minutes earlier. Everything was fixed. 1 waa to have a good time. I was all dressed for the occasion, red sweater, red necktie and a red blazer cap. Well about 2:30 the first afternoon I discovered a big apple tree full of juicy sweet apples, in the middle of a large pasture that didn't have an animal in it -because I'm talking about the pasture because I stood on top of the fence and looked honest Well, being a brave lad and wishing to risk my sweet young life against the poisonous bits of garter snakes, my fondness of green sweet apples prompted me to ciosa that beautiful field. Now crossing a field is beipg ordinary but what was m it wasn't that was a bull a re! live bull with four legs, a ring in it? nose and a lot of speed. It came charging dwj upon me from some unknown angle and believe me I wasn't playi-'ig Moses in the Bullrushes either, so I tried 1o get to the tree first I iHi and before I knew it I was bictiLg on the top branch making faces at that bull. The bull kept pawing up the earth so much that I thought he was digging my grille so I got scared, I did, and wondered how Robinson Cursoe would have felt in the top of an apple treo a block away from any fenc?, with only green apples and too scared to oat 'em and a bull at the bottom digging his grave. Pretty soon the buil let out a "baw" and wiggled bis head whilo I let out a "baw" and f ( It for .y handkerchief it was itard work, let it be said, and I v f 3 too scarf d to look up for fear of soeii.tr the pearly gates of heav-i open up to me. Well, along about G I got hungry beyond wordsso hungry I chew ed all the frinro ofi my handkerchief so I caut'ouslv began to r.nelimb that tree and when I was

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sure that bull wwi't looking f. went for the fence. Well I went a fast ami the bull went so much faster and wo was tolh going along on the tamo path that we burned all the grass of the ground wo both traveled over. It got bo thi I could feel the bull's breath on the back of my neck when 1 just got to going so fast I burned H tLo slu e leather off my feet and I was Just thinking about turning on that bu raining my arm down hi trmat ani ciisejecting his ca.botstor when tlio fence loomed uj in frou: of inc. The oull didn't get mo all the ay through .i'.at fence, though because I was over half way through when he cacghc iij with .ne. I ate my supicr oft the mantle tor three, wen't.8, besides I was rather impressed with that bull. Naw! I didu't got an apple: Logging Camp Keepers Lead Life of Comfort During Summer Days No set of men in the world have an easier or a happier life than do the "camp keepers" of northern Maine. They toll not, neither do they do much thinking, yet on incomes not exceeding $100 cash a year they really have a comfortablo and enjoyable existence. These happy men are the keepers, or caretakers of lumber camps during the five months of the year that logging operations are suspended and the camps are deserted. When the work of cutting the winter's crop of logs has been com pleted and the last of the crew has gone down the river to Bangor somebody must guard the camps, the provisions that have been left over, and all the valuable outfit and must see that the property Is not burned up or stolen by woods tramps or careless Bportsmen. For this purpose the owner of the camp hires one of the queer, happy go lucky characters always to be found in the borderland between the deep woods and civilization.. No Family Connections. These men havve no fixed place of residence and generally no fam ily connections that they care much about and they have a constitutional aversion for real labor. They are good fishermen, good shots, and good woods cooks. They do not need or care for many clothes and have not the least ambition to be come wealthy. Ail they want is comfort, plenty to eat plenty of tobacco, a good chance to hunt and fish, and nothing whatever to do in the line of work on a regular schedule. This is the life of the camp keeper, and it is always easy to get a man to take the job. When the last logger is gone the kekeper comes in and takes charge. He falls heir to all the dime novels, illustrated papers, old clothes and tobacco that may be left behind. There is always enough flour, pork, molasses and tea in the camp to supply a dozen men for a year, and the keeper has his choice of fifty bunks to sleep in. He has a rifle, a fishing rod, a big jackknife, lots Df clay pipes, a complete knowledge Df the woods, and a dreamy indifference to all that goes on In the outside world. Don't Know of War. It often happens that the camp keeper doesn't know who is president of the United States, and, what is more, he does not care a rap. There are people in the north woods who haven't yet heard of the United States going to war with Germany and are not likely to hear of it until after the fuss is all over with. An Austrian whom the Bangor police arrested the other day on suspicion of being a German spy when asked what was his attitude toward the United States in the war looked bewildered and asked, "What war!" He had been in the deep woods for four years and had not heard of the big clash. The world is bigger than many people realize, especially in the deep woods, where news penetrates slowly. Sets Camp In Order. For a week or two after the de parture of the logging crew the camp keeper is busy overworked, in fact, for he has to "pick up the camp that is, set everything in order and take a mental inventory of the stuff left over for his dis posal. Having completed this la borious task, be settles down for a rest of a few months, which rest is interrupted only by fishing trips or excursions into the woods to look up places frequented by moose and deer and to locate good gum

bearing trees. This knowledge Is valuable to him in the following fall and winter, when ho hires out as a guide to sportsmen. At the close of his camp keeping season he gets his $50 or $100 in a lump, and that will buy for him some clothes, a lot of tobacco, and enough ammunition to last him until spring. In winter, except during the game season, when he may have a job of guiding, he rests from his exertions of the summer and in the spring he gets his camp keeping job again.

:i!'ii:i!;i!i!i:iii!!ii!!i:ii;!iiii!:iira'iiiiiii lOCIETY illlllllU Miss June Mathews is entertaining on Saturday afternoon in celebration of her ninth birthday. There will be lots of children's games and great fun. The guests will be: Natalie Harding, Maxine Campbell, Shirley Sims, Madge Townsend. Betty Clark, Martha Clark, Pearl Haynes, Mary Connlff, Barbara Thomas. Naomi Caldwell, Pauline Arnold, Pauline Spaulding, Dorothy Shurley, Frances Mathews of Centerville. SOME BEANS! Seventeen thousand acres of beans are now growing in the San Fernando valley, California. Every man and team in the valley has been at work every hour of the day preparing the soil. Ten sacks of hpans an aTV is a conservative es timate, which will give a total crop of 13,000,000 pounds. SAFETY PIN KILLS VALUABLE COW When a valuable Holstein cow, owned by Emery Coe, of Alien township, Ohio, died under peculiar circumstances, an autopsy disclosed that death was caused by a safety pin, which was open and inbedded in the animal's heart An eightinch piece of No. 11 wire was also removed from her stomach. A PRACTICAL SUIT FOR THE GROWING BOY ZT3J 2134 Boys' Blouse and Trousers. This model is ideal for warm weather, with the low neck and short sleeves, and the trousers with straight lower edge. The blouse and trousers may be of the same material, of linen, drill, khaki, galatea, gingham, pique, serve or corduroy, or the blouse may be of linen or other wash fabric and the trousers of serge or cloth. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 4, 6, 8 and 10 years. Size 8 will require 3 yards of 36inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. Name Address City Size Address: Pattern Department, Palladium.